Experience from long-term monitoring of RAKR ratios in Ir-192 brachytherapy
Tedgren, Asa Carlsson ; Bengtsson, Emil ; Hedtjarn, Hakan ; Johansson, Asa ; Karlsson, Leif ; Lamm, Inger-Lena LU ; Lundell, Marie ; Mejaddem, Younes ; Munck af Rosenschöld, Per LU
and Nilsson, Josef
, et al.
(2008)
In Radiotherapy and Oncology
89(2).
p.217-221
- Abstract
- Background: Ratios of values of brachytherapy source strengths, as measured by hospitals and vendors, comprise constant differences as, e.g., systematic errors in ion chamber calibration factors and measurement setup. Such ratios therefore have the potential to reveal the systematic changes in routines or calibration services at either the hospital or the vendor laboratory, which could otherwise be hidden by the uncertainty in the source strength values. Methods: The RAKR of each new source in 13 afterloading units at five hospitals were measured by well-type ion chambers and compared to values for the same source stated on vendor certificates. Results: Differences from unity in the ratios of RAKR values determined by hospitals and vendors... (More)
- Background: Ratios of values of brachytherapy source strengths, as measured by hospitals and vendors, comprise constant differences as, e.g., systematic errors in ion chamber calibration factors and measurement setup. Such ratios therefore have the potential to reveal the systematic changes in routines or calibration services at either the hospital or the vendor laboratory, which could otherwise be hidden by the uncertainty in the source strength values. Methods: The RAKR of each new source in 13 afterloading units at five hospitals were measured by well-type ion chambers and compared to values for the same source stated on vendor certificates. Results: Differences from unity in the ratios of RAKR values determined by hospitals and vendors are most often small and stable around their mean values to within +/- 11.5%. Larger deviations are rare but occur. A decreasing ratio, seen at two hospitals for the same source, was useful in detecting an erroneous pressure gauge at the vendor's site. Conclusions: Establishing a mean ratio of RAKR values, as measured at the hospital and supplied on the vendor certificate, and monitoring this as a function of time are an easy way for the early detection of problems with equipment or routines at either the hospital or the vendor site. (c) 2008 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved. Radiotherapy and Oncology 89 (2008) 217-221. (Less)
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- Tedgren, Asa Carlsson
; Bengtsson, Emil
; Hedtjarn, Hakan
; Johansson, Asa
; Karlsson, Leif
; Lamm, Inger-Lena
LU
; Lundell, Marie
; Mejaddem, Younes
; Munck af Rosenschöld, Per
LU
and Nilsson, Josef
, et al. (More)
- Tedgren, Asa Carlsson
; Bengtsson, Emil
; Hedtjarn, Hakan
; Johansson, Asa
; Karlsson, Leif
; Lamm, Inger-Lena
LU
; Lundell, Marie
; Mejaddem, Younes
; Munck af Rosenschöld, Per
LU
; Nilsson, Josef
; Wieslander, Elinore
LU
and Wolke, Jeanette
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- 2008
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Reference air-kerma rate, PDR, Ir-192, HDR
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- Radiotherapy and Oncology
- volume
- 89
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 5 pages
- publisher
- Elsevier
- external identifiers
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- wos:000261520100013
- scopus:55349113195
- pmid:18774192
- ISSN
- 1879-0887
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.radonc.2008.07.024
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- English
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abstract = {{Background: Ratios of values of brachytherapy source strengths, as measured by hospitals and vendors, comprise constant differences as, e.g., systematic errors in ion chamber calibration factors and measurement setup. Such ratios therefore have the potential to reveal the systematic changes in routines or calibration services at either the hospital or the vendor laboratory, which could otherwise be hidden by the uncertainty in the source strength values. Methods: The RAKR of each new source in 13 afterloading units at five hospitals were measured by well-type ion chambers and compared to values for the same source stated on vendor certificates. Results: Differences from unity in the ratios of RAKR values determined by hospitals and vendors are most often small and stable around their mean values to within +/- 11.5%. Larger deviations are rare but occur. A decreasing ratio, seen at two hospitals for the same source, was useful in detecting an erroneous pressure gauge at the vendor's site. Conclusions: Establishing a mean ratio of RAKR values, as measured at the hospital and supplied on the vendor certificate, and monitoring this as a function of time are an easy way for the early detection of problems with equipment or routines at either the hospital or the vendor site. (c) 2008 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved. Radiotherapy and Oncology 89 (2008) 217-221.}},
author = {{Tedgren, Asa Carlsson and Bengtsson, Emil and Hedtjarn, Hakan and Johansson, Asa and Karlsson, Leif and Lamm, Inger-Lena and Lundell, Marie and Mejaddem, Younes and Munck af Rosenschöld, Per and Nilsson, Josef and Wieslander, Elinore and Wolke, Jeanette}},
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